Improved egg-beater



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

CHARLES H. BUTTERFIELD, OF STURBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

llVIPROVED EGG-BEATER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,770, dated October16, 1866.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. BUTTER- FIELD, of Sturbridge, in thecounty of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented anImproved Egg-Beater; and 1 do hereby declare the same to befullydescribed in the following specication, and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figure lis a side elevation, and Fig.v2 a vertical section, of it. Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the liquidrotator or agitator, to be hereinafter described.

In such drawings, Ais along glass jar or case, cylindrical in its formexcept at or near its middle, wherev it is reduced in diameter orcontracted, as represented at a a., such reduction being for the purposeof causing the jar to have two chambers connected by a hollow neck. Thejar has a mouth to receive a stopple, B, and is to be made oftransparent glass for the purpose of rendering it easily cleaned and notliable to oxidation, as well as to allow the liquid parts ofthe eggs,while being beaten together in the jar, to be easily seen. through itssides.

Vithin the middle of the jar I arrange the liquid rotator or agitator C,which I connect to the stopper by means of a furcated supporter, D,extended from such stopple, it being intended that such rotator G shallbe stationary, as respects the stopple and the jar, while eggs are beingbeaten in and by such Jar.

Therotator C, Iconstructof a cylindrical tube, b, out and bent so as tohave one or more series of wings or floats projectinginward from it, asshown at c c c d d cl c e e, each wing of such series being arrangedradially and obliquely relatively to the axis, as represented. In thisway the uid -rotator can be easily made of one single tube or plate ofmetal.

The furcated rotator I construct of three wires, g g g, side by side,and soldered together for some distance along their middles. Each ofthese wires, near its upper end, is bent twice at a right angle, so asto support and pass through the cork part hof the stopple. After goingthrough the stopple the wire is to be again bent down at a right angleand upon the upper surface of the said stopple. A metallic cap, fi, isto be next placed on the stopple, so as to make a nish thereto. Theother parts, or those marked 7c 7s 7c, of the furcated supporter arecurved, so as to abut against the inner periphery of the rotator, towhich they are to be soldered or otherwise affixed.

In using this egg-beater, it is to be grasped at the contraction a'bythe hand of the user, and is to be moved rapidly back and forthlengthwise, so as to cause the liquid parts of the eggs previouslyintroduced into it to pass through the stationary rotator and from 011eportion of the jar to the other. The rotator, while the liquid ispassing through it, will impart to `it a rotary motion, and aidmaterially in commingling or stirring together the yolk and albuminousparts of such'liquid.

The contracted part of the jar is not only advantageous, as described,but is also for another purpose-viz., that of enabling the jar to beheld in or grasped firmly by the hand. It also answers the purpose ofcontracting the mass of liquid and directing it into the rotator.Itfacilitates the admixtureof the yolks and albumen and theirimpregnation with air.

The case of my egg-beater being a glass jar can be easily kept clean,and is not liable to rust or become oxidated, as is a metallic case, andbeing transparent will allow its contents to be seen while the beatermay be in use.

I make no claim to an egg-beater composed of a case or box and a rotarywheel arranged within it midway between its ends and having floatsdisposed obliquely with respect to its axis, such being as described inthe United States Patent No. 49,176.

I claim as my invention andas an improved manufacture 1. The glassegg-beater jar as made with the contraction a, arranged at or near itsmiddie, the same being as and for the purpose or obj ects ashereinbefore set forth.

2. An eggbeater as tcomposed of the case contracted at its middle, asrepresented, and a liquid rotator arran ged Within the contraction andconnected to the stopple of the case by means substantially as setforth. l

l C. H. BUTTERFIELD.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, F. I?. HALE, Jr.

